Thursday, 23 November 2017

The Ascoughs - Life on the Border of East Fen - The Sources

On the 15th November last year, I posted a list of what were then my main sources for a study of the history of the East Fen in Lincolnshire, where my Ascough ancestors lived. A year later and my visit to Lincolnshire in September provided more information that I have now included in my final draft.

I say final, but lacking an editor, I am now embarking on my own major edit of what is now quite a large document. But I do have a definitive list of my sources and this is it:

Notes on the History of Toynton All Saints and Toynton St Pete by Ethel H Rudkin edited by Robert Pacy. First published 1992 by Old Chapel Lane Books, Burgh le Marsh, Lincs. Copyright Robert Pacey. Second Edition 2001

Margins of the East Fen: Historic Landscape Evolution by Professor I.G. Simmons. Durham University, Department of Geography, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. Website https: www.dur.ac.uk/east-lincs-history. A provisional narrative landscape history by I.G. Simmons with major contributions by Patrick Mussett and additional work by Meryl Foster; made possible by the encouragement and financial support of the late Arthur Owen, FSA

English Peasant Farming. The Agrarian History of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times by Joan Thirsk. First published in 1957 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. Reprinted in 1981 by Methuen & Co. Ltd, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Old and New Landscapes in the Horncastle Area Lincolnshire. The Enclosures of Twenty-Three Parishes – With Maps by Eleanor and Rex C. Russell. Lincolnshire History Series No 7 Copyright Rex C Russell. First published 1985 by Lincolnshire Recreational Services, County Library Headquarters, Brayford House, Lucy Tower Street, Lincoln LN11XN

A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire, Being a description of the Rivers Witham and Welland and their Estuary, and an account of the reclamation, drainage, and enclosure of the Fens adjacent thereto by William Henry Wheeler (1832-1915). Originally published in 1868 with a Second Edition Greatly Enlarged 1897. Published in Boston by J.M. Newcombe and in London by Simpkin, Marshall and Co
Lincolnshire County Council’s historical website http://www.lincstothepast.com. Lincs to the Past is a site that contains hundreds of thousands of records covering items held in Lincolnshire’s Historic Environment Record, Archives, Libraries, Museums and Tennyson Research Centre. Its search engine provides a single place from which to search through the catalogues of the cultural heritage collections held across Lincolnshire
Cassini Historical Map  Old Series 1824   Skegness and Horncastle Sheet 122. Cassini Publishing Ltd 2006

OS Explorer: Skegness, Alford and Spilsby Map 274. Published by Ordnance Survey Limited 2015

The Fenland Project No 8: Lincolnshire Survey, The Northern Fen-Edge by T.W. Lane with a major contribution by Peter Hayes. East Anglian Archaeology Report No 66, 1993. Fenland Project Committee, Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire. Download from East Anglian Archaeology

The Agricultural Revolution in South Lincolnshire by David Grigg 1966. Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London NW1

The history of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fens and Marshes both in forein parts and in this kingdom, and of the improvements thereby extracted from records, manuscripts, and other authentick testimonies by Sir William Dugdale (1695 – 1686)  Printed by Alice Warren 1662. Website: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36795.0001.001?view=toc

The Surveighe of the Manor of Toynton taken the twentithe of November in the xii yeare of our Soveraigne Lord King James. Lincolnshire Archives Ref Name 5-ANC/4/A/14

The Fens and Floods of Mid Lincolnshire by J S Padley 1882                                     

Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Edited by R. C. Wheeler. First published 2008. A Lincoln Record Society Publication, published by The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell and Brewer Ltd, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP123DF, UK

Lindsey Archaeological Services – Toynton Sewerage Scheme (Toynton St Peter and Toynton All Saints) Archaeological Desk-Based Appraisal. Report prepared for Anglian Water Services Ltd by G. Tann. LAS Report No. 671 June 2003

A Short History of Enclosure in Britain – The Land Magazine by Simon Fairlie
Website: http://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/short-history-enclosure-britain

The Lost Fens: England’s Greatest Ecological Disaster by Ian D Rotherham. First published 2013 by The History Press, The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL52QG

The Fen Slodgers - Skegness Magazine 11th May 2013
Website: https://skegness.wordpress.com/2013/05/11/the-fen-slodgers/

From Punt to Plough – A History of the Fens by Rex Sly. First published in the United Kingdom in 2003 by Sutton Publishing Limited

In the Fens by Rex Sly Website: http://www.rexslyinthefens.com

The Changing Fenland by H.C. Darby. Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB21RP. First published by Cambridge University Press 1983
Lincolnshire Fenland Lidar by S J Malone (Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire/Archaeological Project Services) Publication Date: 2014 Publication Name: HTL/APS Working Paper 1

Settlement and Society. A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire by H. E. Hallam. Published by Cambridge University Press 1965.

The design for the initial drainage of the Great Level of the Fens: an historical whodunit in three parts by Margaret Albright Knittl. Published by The British Agricultural History Society in their Agricultural History Review 1st June 2007.

Lincolnshire and the Fens by M W Barley. Published by B T Batsford 1952

Fenland Riots and the English Revolution by Keith Lindley. Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd and Heinemann1982

Lincolnshire Notes and Queries Volume 20 No 160 October 1928. Item 33 - The Fen Laws of Common by Charles Brears

Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 by J M Neeson. Published by Cambridge University Press Online 2010. Original publication date 1993. Website: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522741

Lade Bank Pumping Station on Grace’s Guide: British Industrial History

The Great Depression in British Agriculture - Wikipedia

Witham Fourth District Internal Drainage Board – History

Remonstrance by a Holland Watchman 1800

An Address to Ninety Commoners by Rev Edward Walls   1807

Adventurers (land drainage) – Wikipedia

Toynton St Peter, Toynton All Saints and Wainfleet St Mary - Wikipedia and Genuki

Witham Navigable Drains - Wikipedia


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